Medication options are available to help manage the cognitive and behavioral symptoms of dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Effective treatment of delirium depends on: Delirium type – hyperactive, hypoactive or mixed; Dementia stage; Care goals. Prioritising clear communication and addressing treatable causes is essential.

People with dementia don’t just lose their ... five of them found no improvement in anxiety after antidepressant treatment or no difference when compared to a placebo. Only two studies showed ...

In an Oxnard conference Thursday, the physician who helps lead a care movement asked people not to define dementia as a disease that can be treated with medication designed to alter behavior. Instead, ...

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"When compared to usual care, providing people with dementia with at least five sessions of a music‐based therapeutic ...

Music therapy is unlikely to significantly other dementia-related symptoms like agitation ... marking Friday as the start of a new era for treatment of the illness as a doctors deploy a ...

TAKING a cheap over-the-counter medication could lower your risk of dementia by 12 per cent, a study suggests. Dutch scientists said dosage of the drug doesn't matter - but people who took the ...

Antidepressants are frequently prescribed to people with dementia for symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggressiveness and sleeplessness. But a specific class of antidepressant medications ...

Antidepressants are normally associated with helping to relieve conditions such as anxiety and ... didn't receive the medication. From the comprehensive analysis of 18,740 dementia patients ...

Share on Pinterest Treatment with antidepressant medication is linked to a higher rate of cognitive decline in people with dementia. Image credit: Guido Mieth/Getty Images. A new study ...